Hello Ken!
I successfully used this extension ... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpecialUploadLocal ... to upload nearly 1000 images to my new mw-installation.
Good Luck, regards, Jan
Ken McDonald schrieb:
Thanks for the help regarding my previous question about transferring a wiki to another machine. Looking at it, we really only need to transfer quite a small subset of pages to another wiki (for private editing, before putting them back on the main wiki) so the effort of doing a full transfer might not be worthwhile. (In particular, we don't have unrestricted access to the machine being transferred to, so some of the steps involved in doing a full transfer might be difficult or impossible). We can do the text as we work just by copying and pasting, the real question is how to transfer the images.
From looking at the images directory on our site, it appears that images are maintained in a directory structure that approximates a b-tree of some sort, presumably to mitigate possible problems with extremely large numbers of images. We haven't reached that point yet, so is there any reason not to simply copy the directory, move all images to the top-level in the copy, move the copy over the the new server, and then use something like importImages.php to do the work?
Thanks, Ken
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